Manufacturing Engineer (Lean Manufacturing)
On-siteKalamazoo, Michigan, United States or Pavilion, Michigan, United States
Job Summary
Lead the implementation of Summit Lean Manufacturing System (SLMS) across the facility by conducting routine audits, driving kaizen activities, and developing standardized work tools to improve process balance and reduce costs. Teach SLMS principles to all plant employees in both classroom and shop floor environments while leading independent projects and managing plant floor layouts. Identify and eliminate waste throughout the plant operations, applying problem-solving methodologies to optimize material and information flow. This hands-on leadership role requires strong analytical skills and the ability to coach staff from operators to management. Occasional travel to other SPI plants is required.
Required Qualifications
- Engineering or related degree
- 3 years experience in a manufacturing environment
- Ability to gather and analyze information and make decisions from a limited number of choices
- Ability to effectively communicate and coach all levels from plant floor operators to plant management
- Microsoft office products including (excel, word)
- A minimum score of 50 on the Wonderlic Select Assessment (26 on the Cognitive section)
- Less than 5% travel
Desired Qualifications
- humble
- willing to learn from shop floor experiences as well as from team members on the production lines
- self-motivated
- project management and leadership skills
- initiative and the ability to get things done with and through others
- Problem solving
- communication
- mathematic
- Microsoft Excel capability
- understand the theory and application in all aspects of SLMS (Jidoka, JIT, stability, True North - standardized work, pull systems, problem solving, material and information flow etc)
- Ability to identify and eliminate waste throughout the plant
- Broad range of experiences with different processes and environments
- Learn how to organize shop floor activities
- how to coach others to learn SLMS by doing
- How to combine class room and shop floor learning
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